*** TODO ***
+Release Plans (subject to change)
+-------------
+
+brown-bag bugs may add intermediate releases. The dates are goals,
+not commitments.
+
+BEFORE 0.54
+
+OO interface for i_plin/i_glin (done)
+
+remove gif query from makefile.pl (done)
+
+fallback for read/write_multi to read/write
+
+pnmscale based alternative scale method (done)
+
+rubthrough 4 on 4 (done)
+
+replace dummy test script in dynfilt with a real one (done)
+
+BEFORE 0.50:
+
+skip t82inline.t tests if directory has spaces in name
+
+integrate pod coverage tests
+
+rework iolayers
+
+add .ico support
+
+note lack of IRC support
+
+document parseiptc()
+
+BEFORE 0.48:
+
+scale() fixes/docs, Imager::Transformations going over. (done)
+
+do some more malloc checks (done)
+
+scan $Config{libspath} for directories if we can. (done)
+
+0.47:
+
+- more documentation (and corresponding code cleanup)
+
+- external C API access
+
+- hooks for file reading/writing
+
+- hooks for font types
+
+- hooks for filters
+
+- hooks for fills
+
+- filter pre-processor for handling both image access methods
+
+- move existing loadable filters into separate sub-directories
+
+- write Imager::SDL
+
+- maybe Imager::Tk::Photo
+
+
+0.46: (September 2005)
+
+- check remaining memory allocation calls for integer overflows
+ http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8213
+ - check *alloc() calls
+ - check llist_push() calls
+
+- fix Imager::Color warning when $ENV{HOME} isn't set from
+ _get_gimp_color() (done)
+ http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13143
+
+- module version numbers (done)
+ http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13047
+
+- allow limits to be set on the size of an image read from a file. This is
+ to prevent an attacker supplying huge images that consume all of
+ memory causing a denial of service attack. (done)
+
+- implement gsamp()/gsampf()/plin() etc methods for those low level image
+ interfaces which don't yet have methods. (done)
+ - code (done)
+ - test (done)
+ - document (done)
+
+- add Imager::Tutorial (see Tk::UserGuide for a structure) (done)
+ don't cover installation - belongs in README or INSTALL
+ it doesn't need to cover everything - read/write/create/simple drawing
+ and simple text - other stuff belongs in the cookbook or in sample code
+
+- rename lib/Imager/Cookbook.pm to lib/Imager/Cookbook.pod (done)
+
+- add 5 more recipes to Imager::Cookbook
+
+- implement i_incomplete for png and gif files.
+
+- documentation audit, check:
+ - every method has at least one example, but if the method is complex
+ (like transform2, to_paletted, string() for example) it should include
+ a range of examples
+ - check each method description to ensure it's reasonably clear.
+ - check POD sections (SEE ALSO in particular)
+ - multiple examples for writing GIF images.
+ - name arguments and use those names in the documentation
+ http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/102434
+ (#1521, #5608, #8231, #11429, #13058(done))
+
+- have $img->read() act like ($img) = Imager->read_multi() on GIFs (done)
+
+- figure out what the nearest_color filter does, and document it
+
+- remove image.h dependency on t1lib.h (done)
+
+- make sure dynfilt/Makefile.PL gets the same includes that
+ Makefile.PL does.
+
+0.47:
+
+- rework handling of antialiasing and other transparency against
+ transparent images
+
+ Places to check:
+ - text AA rendering
+ - AA line drawing
+ - anything that uses combine (fills in particular)
+ - image scaling? and matrix_transform()'s interpolation
+ http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11972
+
+0.48:
+
+- fill out handling of large sample (16/double per sample) images
+ - filters
+ - rendering:
+ - lines
+ - text
+ - boxes
+ - polygons
+ - engines
+ - matrix transform
+ - transform()
+ - transform2()
+ - files:
+ - png
+ - tiff
+ - pnm
+
+Speculation
+-----------
+
+Some of what's listed below has been implemented.
+
+- should i_incomplete be optional? ie. reading a short image results in
+ an error unless the user requests incomplete images.
Iolayer:
- Add scalar/mmap to iolayer
- Add close() code to iolayer for fakeseek sources.
- Merge callback interface into iolayer
-- Add iolayer reading/writing for gif
- and raw
- Implment the maxread threshold (Indicates how much can
be read from a source before it stops reading from its
underlying source. For making sure only the relevant
data is read from a socket for example.
-
Enhanched internal structure:
MultiImage & metadata support:
interface design that takes these factors into account.
- define common i_* tags for specifying attribute common among images
like spatial resolution (implement for other image types, especially
- TIFF)
+ TIFF) (Spatial resolution is supported for all types that support
+ it - are there any other common properties we can add?)
+- implement the i_incomplete tag for other formats
New Features:
- Add mng support, pcx and aalib support.
+ - Windows icon files (.ico) (done)
+ - ILBM (Amiga) images
+ - photoshop files (I think I've seen docs)
+ - XBM
+ - FITS
+ - WMF (extract bitmap data on read)
+ - gzip or bzip2 compressed raw
+ - postscript for output
+ - PAM file support (man pam in recent PNM tools)
- Transforms, interpolated multidimensional lookup tables.
Usefull for CMYK <-> RGB table lookup.
-- Finish antialiased filled polygon function.
-
- advanced font layout (spacing, kerning, alignment) (Artur?)
- ways to check if characters are present in a font, eg. checking if
- ligatures are present
+ ligatures are present (done for FreeType2)
- font synthesis - synthesize a bold or slanted font from a normal font
(or even from an existing bold or slanted font)
- utf8 support for text output
- (available for freetype2)
+ (available for FT1, freetype2, T1, Win32)
+
+- easy interfaces for text output:
+ - align text around point, including:
+ - left, center, right horizontal alignment
+ - top, center, baseline, bottom alignment
+ - choose whether to base alignment upon character cells or font
+ metrics to avoid spacing problems between lines
+ - fill a box from text, with newline handling
+ - an option to just return the information that would be used to
+ output the text, so it can be used for sizing calculations
+ - how much text fit in the box/how much space is left in the box
+ - fill a box with rich text (size and font changes)
+ - as above
+ - wrapping around boxes/images
+ - pod2Imager :)
+
+- tools to get more information about fonts/characters:
+ - name of font "Arial Bold Italic" vs "arialbi.ttf"
+ - ABC widths for characters (currently the only way to get the C width
+ for a character is to get the width with a following space and without
+ and then compare)
+ - character names
+
+- encodings for text output (maybe using the Encode module to work
+ between encodings)
- image rotation, 3 ways of doing rotation:
- rotation by shearing, which produces makes lengths in the image larger,
but could be useful
(2 of the 3 have been done)
-- read_multi() needs to handle other multi-image types, such as TIFF
- (probably the most common)
+- read_multi() needs to handle other multi-image types,
+ (handles TIFF and GIF)
+
+- write_multi() to save other multi-image types, (handles TIFF and GIF)
+ - pnm binary formats support multiple images per file
- compose channels - build a new image based on channels from several
images
-- filled polygons
-
- arc outlines
+- complex lines/curves:
+ - thick lines:
+ - dotted/dashed lines
+ - doubled lines?
+ - end-point controls (butt-end, square-end, round-end, pointy, arrows)
+ - brush-lines (as with the Gimp, or Photoshop)
+ - more complex with multiple strokes and various randomness as with
+ Fractal Design Painter (or later versions of Corel Photo Paint)
+ - complex line shapes:
+ - lines
+ - general curves (cubic or bezier, whichever is more general)
+ - easy access to general curves:
+ - points to make a nice curve from
+ - various circular curves (centre, radii, start/end angles,
+ direction)
+ - Complex thick lines are probably more useful than brush-lines for
+ the things I expect Imager to be used for.
+ - http://www.develop-help.com/imager/strokes.png (.jpg for smaller version)
+
+- have Imager::Color{::Float}? use Graphics::ColorNames if present.
+
Clean up:
- Make sure everything is doable with the OO interface
i_flood_fill() for example.
+ - include low-level functions like gsamp() and so on
- Compile with memory debugging enabled and fix all leaks
-- dynaload.c is strongly tied to perl
-
- Add mycalloc() memory allocation wrappers.
- should we overload <=> or cmp for Imager::Color objects?
standard for this (suggested names)? Remember to preserve the old
interface where possible.
+- try to clean up the inconsistencies between font types:
+ - utf8 (even if we just treat characters over 0xFF as missing for T1)
+ (done for FT2, FT1, T1)
+ - transformations (done for FT2)
+ - has_char() method (done for FT2, FT1, T1)
+
Format specific issues:
- provide patches for libgif and libungif that fix their bugs
and give a useful extension interface. Probe for the
installation of the patches in Makefile.PL to let gif.c
- know what features it can use.
+ know what features it can use. (no need anymore)
- Add options for pnm writer to save in any of the p1..P6
formats. Even if the input has 1 channel, write 3 and such
pbm images which needs ties to the quantization code.
- save paletted images as paletted where that's supported. Done
- for gif/tga. Not done for png/tiff yet.
+ for gif/tga/bmp/tiff. Not done for png yet.
- read other format paletted images as paletted images. This has
- been done for gif/tga formats but not for tiff/png.
+ been done for gif/tga/bmp/tiff formats but not for png.
+
+- read/write 16-bit/sample images as such for tiff
+
+- read more metadata from images, esp tiff tags, EXIF format information
+ from TIFF and JPEG.
+
+- handle 16-bit/sample pgm/ppm files (done)
+
+- "jpeg lossless rotation" - directly manipulates the JPEG
+ representation to rotate, scale or in some limited cases, crop an
+ image.
Documentation:
- Add to the documentation
- Write a tutorial?
- sample code and Imager/Samples.pod describing them
- Imager/Cookbook.pod
-- modify the .pm files to put pod describing a function close to the
- function
- Write a guide to installing the helper libraries
- Go through the entire project and add comments in pod
so doco.perl can be used to read them.
+- see the IRC log in design/doclayout.txt
+- method index?
+- concept index?
+
+Build/configure:
+- use prompt() (from ExtUtils::MakeMaker) for questions in Makefile.PL
+- use the library's mechanism's to find the library if needed, for
+ example, freetype-config for FT2
+- the freetype2 library is built as "freetype.lib" on Win32 and needs
+ to be renamed to be found by the configuration process and included
+ with -lfreetype. Try to work around that.
+- freetype2 and freetype1 tend to be installed in /usr/include/freetype2
+ and /usr/include/freetype directories, or similarly named (somedir/freetype
+ for example), instead of putting these directly into the search path
+ search for the freetype{2}?/someheader and then add the subdirectory if
+ we find the file in that directory.
+- switch to Test::More
+- change headers to use more unique re-include protection macros
+
+Old release checklists
+----------------------
+
+0.44: (december 2004)
+- set i_format for every file type on read and test for it:
+ - bmp - done
+ - jpeg - done
+ - tiff - done
+ - tga - done
+ - rgb - no read function anyway
+ - png - done
+ - gif - done
+ - pnm - done
+ - raw - done
+- check each file reader for possible integer overflows
+ - bmp - done
+ - tiff
+ - tga
+ - rgb
+ - png
+ - gif
+ - pnm
+- check bmp code uses image data offset correctly - done
+- check quant code for integer overflows - done
+- check for old URLs (umich and imager.perl.org/~addi/...) - done
+
+0.45: (march 2005?)
+- resolve fills test failure under 5.8.6/darwin
+ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/202802
+ add tests to check if the same problem occurs with other ?: operators
+- stop tga_header_verify() from spewing junk to stdout (done)
+- fix i_setcolors_p bug (done)
+- audit pnm.c (done)
+- audit tga.c (done)
+- audit rgb.c and add tests
+- add META.yml (bypass EU::MM's limited mechanism) (done)
+- implement i_incomplete for bmp files
+- check if freetype 2 is faster/slower than freetype 1 with Imager's glyph
+ caching. If FT1 is faster, add caching as a TODO for FT2.
+- add XS for i_tags_get_string() and test it. It has an apparent problem
+ in C<< sprintf(value, "%d", entry->data); >> since data is a pointer
+ (done)
+- test and fix problem with fallback value for
+ Imager::Font::BBox->advance_width. (done)
+- check handling of string() method align parameter. (done, fixed)
+- i_tt_bbox_inst in font.c uses variable i without ever setting it. (fixed)
+- add sample CGI that handles an uploaded image (done)
+- examples for fountain filter in Imager::Filters (done)
+- allow Imager::Fountain to take color descriptions (eg. blue, FF000)
+ instead of color objects for c0 and c1 (done)
+- support newer GIMP gradient files with the Name line (done)
+- provide access to right-side bearing information from the bounding box
+ function (done for all drivers)
+- capture TIFF read warnings (i_warnings tag?) (done)
+- Imager::Matrix2d rotate method only applies offset if both x and y
+ are non-zero, it should do it if either is non-zero (done)
+- add Imager::Cookbook with at least 5 recipes (done)
+- store floating point tags in an appropriate precision (done)
+- allow image creation to fail on malloc() failure for the image data
+ rather than aborting. The current behaviour could be a denial of
+ service attack. This has limited utility because of the way memory
+ over commitment works on Linux (done but reverted)
+- eliminate unused variable warning (especially the RETVAL ones in Imager.xs)
+ (done)
+- handle probing for libraries better (use pkg-config or I<library>-config
+ where possible (freetype2 and libpng)) (done)
+- add concept index to Imager.pm pod (done, still working it)
+- replace testimg/penguin-base.ppm with a smaller image (done)
+- add a sample CGI HTML and image generation scripts that work together,
+ with appropriate security management (done)
+
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